Environment variables containing newlines in Node?

Question

I\'m attempting to load an RSA private key into my nodejs application using environment variables, but the newlines seem to be being auto-escaped.

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Answer 1

As described in another topic you can encode yout multiline string in base64 and put it inside .env like

HTTPS_CA_CERTIFICATE=LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBDRVJUSUZJQ0FURS0tLS0tCk1JSURDVENDQWZHZ0F3SUJBZ0lVY29lWFp1R

And then decode it inside your app

var cert = new Buffer(process.env.HTTPS_CA_CERTIFICATE, 'base64').toString('ascii');